Casey Carter Brings 'To Use a Mountain' to Theaters, Tracing 77,000 Tons of Nuclear Waste
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Updated · The Moveable Fest · Aug 19
Casey Carter Brings 'To Use a Mountain' to Theaters, Tracing 77,000 Tons of Nuclear Waste
3 articles · Updated · The Moveable Fest · Aug 19
Summary
Aug. 21 marks the New York theatrical opening of Casey Carter’s documentary at the DCTV Firehouse after a festival run that began at Visions du Reel last year.
Six candidate disposal sites—not just Yucca Mountain—drive the film’s structure, using Department of Energy records and on-the-ground reporting to show how the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act spread risk onto vulnerable communities.
Louisiana, Mississippi and Nevada communities anchor that human dimension, with Carter highlighting economic abandonment, racial inequity and Indigenous land concerns around the long search for a repository.
Yucca Mountain remains the story’s focal point because the Trump administration is again pushing the Nevada site after Obama-era abandonment, underscoring that the waste fight is still unresolved decades later.